Museum Essay
History of Kyrgyzstan
Museum Essay
The mummy The topic of my museum essay is a mummy lying in the museum. This artifact interested me a lot because of its uniqueness and originality. As far as I know, this is the only mummy keeping in our country. It is kept here from the 5th century. Its origin is the burial site of Kara-Bulak, Batken region, Osh province. The condition of a mummy is a natural state of mummification. The artifact itself is very interesting. There is a juniper coffin, the mummy inside of it but that is not all. Inside of the coffin there is also two boxes with food, inside one of the boxes, there are about fifteen bones from dried apricots. That is because it is said that in ancient times, people have already suspected about the existence of an afterlife and put the food near the dead person in order to provide them a meal in the other world after death. I.e. they tried to provide them comfort in another world. As for the mummy itself, we can say that this is more likely to be a woman. Because, the mummy has one earring in its left ear. Actually, it said that men were wearing earrings at those times too. But there are also other facts and indicators of this mummy as a woman. They are the remains of a silk dress and the remains of leather boots on its feet. Thus, because of the presence of the silk and leather, we can judge that this mummy was someone rich and high-ranking in the society, probably it was a princess or at least a member of loyal, kingly family. Because such materials were very rare and expensive at that times. As for the critique, this artifact definitely can be criticized. The mummy is kept in appalling conditions. There is just a coffin and the glass frame from above. To keep a mummy in appropriate conditions is very significant in order to save the artifact in the best possible way, and given conditions now are not enough at all. There should be a sealable vacuum at least and certainly a specific, determined
Museum Essay
The mummy The topic of my museum essay is a mummy lying in the museum. This artifact interested me a lot because of its uniqueness and originality. As far as I know, this is the only mummy keeping in our country. It is kept here from the 5th century. Its origin is the burial site of Kara-Bulak, Batken region, Osh province. The condition of a mummy is a natural state of mummification. The artifact itself is very interesting. There is a juniper coffin, the mummy inside of it but that is not all. Inside of the coffin there is also two boxes with food, inside one of the boxes, there are about fifteen bones from dried apricots. That is because it is said that in ancient times, people have already suspected about the existence of an afterlife and put the food near the dead person in order to provide them a meal in the other world after death. I.e. they tried to provide them comfort in another world. As for the mummy itself, we can say that this is more likely to be a woman. Because, the mummy has one earring in its left ear. Actually, it said that men were wearing earrings at those times too. But there are also other facts and indicators of this mummy as a woman. They are the remains of a silk dress and the remains of leather boots on its feet. Thus, because of the presence of the silk and leather, we can judge that this mummy was someone rich and high-ranking in the society, probably it was a princess or at least a member of loyal, kingly family. Because such materials were very rare and expensive at that times. As for the critique, this artifact definitely can be criticized. The mummy is kept in appalling conditions. There is just a coffin and the glass frame from above. To keep a mummy in appropriate conditions is very significant in order to save the artifact in the best possible way, and given conditions now are not enough at all. There should be a sealable vacuum at least and certainly a specific, determined